Creasing device for garments.



'No.721,822. I 4 PATEN,TED\MAR.3,1903.-

N. MoDEVITT,

GREASING DEVICE FOR GARMENTS.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 3 1901.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NELLIE MCDEVITT, OF BELLEVUE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CREASlhlG DEVICE FOR GARMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 721,822, dated March 3, 1903.

Application filed October 3, 1901.

T (ZZZ whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, NELLIE MODEVITT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bellevue, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oreasing Devices for Garments, of which improvement the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in creasing devices for garments, and is particularly adapted to be employed for creasing skirts and like garments.

The present invention has for its object the provision of novel means whereby a skirt may be creased in a manner that will assure the garment of having a uniform length throughout. In the manufacture of skirts it has been found a difficult matter to cut from patterns that when followed will assure a uniform length of the skirt to the front, sides, and back.

It is the object of the present invention to overcome all such difficulties and to provide a creasing device that will be true and exact to accomplish the desired results.

With the above and'other objects in view the invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claim.

In describing the invention in detail reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and wherein like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which-- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved creasing device. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail view showing the manner of creasing the cloth.

In the drawings numeral 1 indicates a truck mounted on suitable wheels on which is brazed or otherwise secured a standard 2, having an elongated slot 4. therein, and 3 designates a frame having a screw 5 mounted at one end thereof, which screw passes through Serial No. 77,358- (No model.)

and has an elongated play in said slot 4. The frame 3 is bent horizontally at 3 thence upwardly a slight inclination, and has its end inwardly bent at an angle, as at 8. To this end is pivoted, as at 9, the clamping-arm 10, the lower end of which is adapted to hold the portion of the garment to be creased against the inner face of said upright portion of the frame 3, which is at an inclination. A spring 11 is mounted on pins and is disposed between said inclined portion of the frame and the arm 10, which is provided for the purpose of holding said arm normally in clamping relation. By means of ascrew 15, passing freely through the upright portions of the frame to which said arm is pivoted and which has threaded connections with the arm 10, the latter may be held from a clamping relation under tension of the spring 11 when it is desired to adjust the garment to be creased. A washer 17 is placed over the screw 15 and is provided for the purpose of allowing said screw to be held to adjust the pivotal clamping-arm 10.

In Fig. 3 I have shown a slight modification, in which the garment is held by an arm having an inverted-V-shaped end held over a similar-shaped angle portion of the frame.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a device of the character described, the combination of a truck, a slotted standard, a frame 3, a screw 5 carried by an upright portion thereof and adj ustably held in the slot of said standard, a spring-actuated clampingarm 10 pivoted to the angled end of said frame and a screw passing through said frame and clamping-arm, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' v NELLIE MCDEVITT. In presence of LOUIS MOESER,

M. HUNTER. 

